javert

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by javert 6y ago
> If you’re looking for a convenient lie, there are plenty of sources for that. Don't be nasty. Engage in legitimate conversation or be quiet.
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by javert 6y ago
The overwhelmingly vast majority of "wealthy" Americans have zero political power. Zero.
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by javert 6y ago
The rich don't control the two political parties. Showing that they do would be the beginning of evidence. In fact, the Dems' agenda is anti-rich (raise taxes enormously, etc.) and the Republicans are currently controlled by non-c
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by javert 6y ago
It would be cruel if he blamed the Jews. It would be cruel if he blamed the blacks. It would be cruel if he blamed the poor. Somehow it's not cruel if he blames the rich?
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by javert 6y ago
This is just another blame-the-rich piece without any evidence. I guess blaming the rich is very popular right now. The article is really interesting, so it's too bad he mars it with this kind of unproven, cruel and vitriolic thesis.
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by javert 6y ago
No because they aren't corporate or bank bailouts. My notes (from early November) indicate that the bills are about 1/3 healthcare spending, 1/3 state and local government spending (i.e. "bailouts" of those governme
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by javert 6y ago
> My statement is that the Biden administration doesn't get to appropriate funds, Congress does. Bailouts of the 2008 variety involve the Treasury department, so the Biden administration would be a big part of any future bailouts of
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by javert 6y ago
I don't see that your comment actually contradicts the comment you're responding to. So I think you're being unnecessarily nasty to the person you're responding to. I mean, do you think the fact that the Dems are pushing
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by javert 6y ago
Yeah, still no guarantee of that. A blockchain solution is ideal, but requires browsers to do DNS lookup using the blockchain. Namecoin was/is working on this. Another project is mentioned somewhere else in this thread (but it might be
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by javert 6y ago
It's a service for hackers, not for average businesses.
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by javert 6y ago
> That's way too complicated for the average registrant. I don't care. It's a niche service. There are at least tens of thousands of security-paranoid developers who would be a target market for this product. This is child
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Warp Drive News. Seriously(youtube.com)
3 points by javert 6y ago|0 comments
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by javert 6y ago
Here is my idea for a non-broken/secure domain registrar using public-key crypto. a) When you register the domain, you provide a public key. b) The registrar will only ever redirect the domain if they receive a message signed with the
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by javert 6y ago
Thanks. I figured that if this was bullshit (likely), some smart person on Hacker News would be able to cut through it quickly.
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It Sure Looks Like Humans Have Found a Way to Reverse Aging(popularmechanics.com)
3 points by javert 6y ago|4 comments
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by javert 6y ago
That makes sense, although of course most people with significant assets pay for professional money management (there are several "tiers" of this kind of service, e.g. wealth managers) without actually having a family office. The
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by javert 6y ago
People also use the term to mean something else, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_office But I think you're right as well.
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by javert 6y ago
Thanks. That makes sense. When does it make sense to have a family office? I would guess, when you want to employ at least one financial professional full time? Is that right?
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by javert 6y ago
Except growth of the budget outstrips growth of the population, enormously. Please cut out the sarcasm. Let's be nice to one another. (And if you didn't mean it to be sarcasm, never mind.)
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by javert 6y ago
Is a "family office" well defined? $5M seems too small for what is normally considered a "family office." Also if you have a "family office" with $5M in it you'd meet the old standards for an accredited in
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by javert 6y ago
The government does not cut the budget. It is ever-growing. Republicans lower taxes sometimes. They re-allocate budget from one thing to another. They don't cut the budget.
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by javert 6y ago
They are behaving based on what they are rewarded for. Almost all of these people will be re-elected. We need to break out of the GOP/Dem stranglehold if we want to change this behavior. That stranglehold is not desired by the electo
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by javert 6y ago
It's hard to think of rich people who are doing more harm than good. Sure, you could argue that for Zuckerberg, Dorsey, and the Sackler family if you want to. But they are a tiny fraction of all rich people. "Silently rape" i
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by javert 6y ago
To be clear, my conception of a "universal ordering" doesn't mean we can always measure when things happen relative to one another. If two things are causally related, we know one happened first. If a tree falls on Andromeda
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by javert 6y ago
Relative to a clock on earth, moving at a given speed relative to the speed of light, the supernova happened when it happened. All that is changing with lensing is that you're seeing the light coming from it earlier looking in one dire
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by javert 6y ago
I'm fairly convinced this is intellectual masturbation. I think two situations are being confused for one another: a) If you travel close to the speed of light, causality goes more slowly (e.g. a clock ticks more slowly) than it does f
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by javert 6y ago
It leads to us living in an oppressive dystopia.
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by javert 6y ago
What do you dislike about Go?
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by javert 6y ago
That's not helpful. Whereas the comment you are responding to is helpful (at least to some of us).
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by javert 6y ago
> You've confused a critique of your rhetoric for a critique of yourself. If you call my comment hypocritical, I think you're calling me hypocritical. Apparently you don't think so. That's fine. It could be a cultural

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